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Article #84Reading a CDC tape on a unix system
From: David M. Owczarek
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1991 17:38
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1991 17:38
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I recently was asked if I could read two CDC tapes on our systems here. We have a Sun 3/480 (SunOS 4.1), Sun 4-280 (SunOS 4.1.1), HP 9000-835SE (HP-UX 3.1B), and Alliant FX/8 (Concentrix 5.6.00). I was also told that a CDC tape uses either an IBM CMS format or something similar. I was able to get a program which reads IBM tapes from uunet.uu.net, but this program tells me the tape is not IBM format. Is there a kind sole out there who might be able to suggest: 1) A source for code to read the tape (anonymous ftp)? 2) What the tape format looks like? I'm sorry the information is sketchy; the guy handed me two 9-track tapes and told me they were written on a CDC machine, and that he knew nothing else about it. Thanks in advance, -Dave -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Owczarek, Operations Team dave@seas.gwu.edu or uunet!seas.gwu.edu!dave The George Washington University Engineering Computing Facility, Wash. D.C. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!seas.gwu.edu!dave From: dave@seas.gwu.edu (David M. Owczarek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc Subject: Reading a CDC tape on a unix system Keywords: CDC, unix, 9-track tape Message-ID: <3134@sparko.gwu.edu> Date: 29 Apr 91 17:38:15 GMT Reply-To: dave@seas.gwu.edu (David M. Owczarek) Followup-To: comp.sys.cdc Distribution: usa Organization: The George Washington University, Washington D.C. Lines: 29